Rodzice na studiach. Rodzicielska tożsamość lifelong learnera a uniwersytet uczący przez całe życie

Abstract

As a consequence of the social, economic, demographic and cultural changes taking place nowadays, it is no longer possible to call European high schools, which fulfil their research, educational and social missions ? ivory towers, closed in the ethos of elitism understood reproductively. This openness is expressed, amongst others, by the idea of lifelong learning, whose accommodation in high schools ? though carried out in the conditions of political implantation ? brings about an effect of more and more interiorized paradigmatic change in the approach to the execution of the mentioned missions and organizational cultures of universities. Amongst others, there appeared numerous formal solutions and educational practices expressing a mindful reaction, grounded in social diagnosis, to the needs of both candidates as well as already studying recipients of their educational offer. Taking into account this perspective I discuss a way of thinking and acting present at the University of Gdańsk in one of the offered educational forms. This course is called Szkoła: Mentor dla Stypendysty (School: Mentor for a Scholar), selected as an example of a responsive approach of the university, responding to the challenges of intra-generation lifelong learning and to the educational needs of current and future students. In that case - of parents, whose lifelong learners? identities are included in the results of the research carried out by the university. In the text structure they are reported at the beginning, grounding the course concept presented further, run in inter-sector cooperation and are conducted in that particular formula of having in mind the conditions of parental auto-creation. The utterance contents, which expresses, amongst others, the search in the direction of preparing potential candidates to confirm the learning effects, eventually concentrates on the conditions of supporting by university the parental lifelong learning.